FEBRUARY 2005 NEWS

Lunchtime Seminars

LUNCHTIME SEMINARS 
We are pleased to announce the programme for this year's EWRE lunchtime research seminars (below), which will take place in Rm 141. Everyone in the Section is encouraged to come, to hear and enquire about the work presently going on in the Section. MSc students are especially welcome (presentations may provide useful background for choosing an MSc project later this term).

Monday 31st January
13.00 Bo Ning "Ozonation of alkylphenol"

13.30 Vanessa Adell "Production of lightweight aggregates from problematic industrial waste ashes using the Lytag process".

Monday 7th February
13.30 Abdi Fidar “Effect of flush volume, pipe diameter and gradient on solids movement in sewers”

13.30 Andrew Ireson "Quantifying flow processes in the unsaturated zone of the Chalk".

Monday 14th February
13.00 Olympia Mitaftsi “Quantifying waste diversion through home composting and kerbside collection”

13.30 Jaena Ryu “Decision support for sewer flood risk”.

Monday 21st February
13.00 Irina Comsa

13.30 Aisha Al-Qurashi “Rainfall-Runoff Modelling in Arid areas"

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As a part of the long term commitment of UNESCO to strengthen the international network of centres dealing with Urban Water Management (UWM), Planning Conference was held in Tehran, Iran on 25th- 26th February 2005 followed by the meeting of the Governing Board of the Regional Centre for Urban Water Managemen t held on 27th February. Professor Cedo Maksimovic was one of the 2 international experts invited to formulate long term research agenda of the centre and to present ideas on the priority research projects relevant to UWM in arid and semi-arid climates. ”

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Welcome to Carol Edwards who joins us as our new Environmental Engineering Research Officer. Carol studied chemistry by day release whilst working in laboratory quality control then joined the Ministry of Defence at Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, London in 1980 as a scientific officer working on chemical analysis and quality assurance of materials for triservices (Army RAF and Navy). In 1993 she moved to UCL as Laboratory Manager in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering. Research areas included chemical and catalytic reaction engineering, combustion, particle technology, crystallisation and fluidization. In 1996 she rejoined Defence Evaluation and Research Agency at Fort Halstead in Kent (now called ‘QinetiQ’) as research scientist in weapons systems, specialising in Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-ray analysis of energetic materials. We wish Carol a warm welcome.

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Professors David Butler and David Fisk have both been invited to participate in a joint Houston-London conference on 'Climate Change, Extreme Events and Coastal Cities' held at Rice University, Houston, Texas on 9/10 February 2005. The event is organised by the Shell Center for Sustainability, the Universities in London, UK Science & Technology and the British Consulate-General, Houston.

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We are pleased to welcome Mr Khoi Tran Tien, who arrived on the 17th February to begin PhD studies under the supervision of Professor Nigel Graham. Mr Khoi holds an appointment as Lecturer in the Department of Environment of the University of Technology of Hochiminh City (HCMUT), Vietnam. He has a B.Sc. degree in Environmental Engineering from HCMUT and a M.Sc. degree in Environment and Energy Engineering from Sheffield University, UK. Mr Khoi is supported by the Vietnam Government and his studies will be in the field of water and wastewater treatment.